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[ self-help , self - ] SHOW IPA
/ ˌsɛlfˈhɛlp, ˈsɛlf- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun the act of providing for or helping or the ability to provide for or help oneself without assistance from others.
Law . the act or right of remedying a wrong, without resorting to legal proceedings.
the acquiring of information or the solving of one's problems, especially those of a psychological nature, without the direct supervision of professionals or experts, as by independent reading or by joining or forming lay groups that are devoted to one's interests or goals.
adjective of or relating to a book, article, home study course, or the like, offering an individual information or counseling intended to be personally beneficial or profitable: self-help books on overcoming shyness.
Origin of self-help First recorded in 1825–35
OTHER WORDS FROM self-help self-helper, noun self-helpful, self-helping, adjective self-help·ful·ness, noun Words nearby self-help self-hardening, self-harm, self-hatred, selfheal, self-healing, self-help , selfhood, self-hypnosis, self-hypnotized, self-identification, self-identify
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Example sentences from the Web for self-help It combines pickup techniques supposedly inspired by evolutionary psychology with self-help pseudoscience.
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Bookstores are stocked with self-help books telling girls how to bag a millionaire.
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Sure, there is an array of “self-help ” guides available in the world.
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Anderson says some of the men who come to his self-help organization have waited over 60 years to reveal their abuse.
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As a popular philosopher and self-help evangelizer, he is in the assertion business—the loftier the better.
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Because, as scarcely needs saying, the principle of self-help is strained to the uttermost at time of child-birth.
Change in the Village | (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt
But the preaching of thrift and self-help , unremitting as it is, is not producing an appreciable effect.
The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays | Thorstein Veblen
The Bushman has his reason for trusting in his amulets; the civilized man, his, for trusting in self-help .
The Story of My Mind | M. M. Mangasarian
From the very first, however, the girls were trained in the virtues of the home, and in self-help .
Women of Achievement | Benjamin Brawley
This open-mouth breathing, however, need not be learned; it is the self-help of nature.
Piano Playing | Josef Hofmann
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British Dictionary definitions for self-help noun the act or state of providing the means to help oneself without relying on the assistance of others
the practice of solving one's problems by joining or forming a group designed to help those suffering from a particular problem (as modifier ) a self-help group Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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